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Demonstrators protest outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London

Worldwide protests are being held to mark the fifth anniversary of detainees arriving at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.

Amnesty International is planning to assemble hundreds of supporters dressed in orange boiler suits outside the US Embassy in London as part of a day of protests around the world to mark the fifth anniversary of the detainees arriving at the Cuba camp.

The group will be joined by Moazzam Begg, one of nine British men who were held at the centre and eventually released without charge.

There will also be protests in Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast and Birmingham, where activists will gather at the Hiatts factory, where the shackles used at Guantanamo are made.

They will be joined by Abu Baker Deghayes, the brother of UK resident Omar Deghayes, a refugee from Libya who is still being held at the camp.

A 12-strong delegation, which includes British former detainee Asif Iqbal, the mother and another brother of Mr Deghayes, and American “peace mom” Cindy Sheehan, has travelled to Cuba to march outside the detention centre gates.

Speaking opposite the gates of Downing Street on Wednesday night, 10-year-old Anas el-Banna, flanked by supporters, called for his father Jamil to be freed from the centre.

Anas has written a personal letter to Tony Blair and on Thursday he is expected to return to Downing Street to deliver a petition.

His father is one of eight British residents believed to be being held at Guantanamo Bay.

Although the men are not British citizens, supporters say the Government should intervene to have them returned to the UK and to their families.